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by imgabe 2y ago
Large parts of the government needed to be dismantled. I know this is a shock to the people whose solution to every problem is “give the government more money”, but amazingly, people who primarily take a job because it has a cushy pension a
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by imgabe 2y ago
DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that. They have read-only access to systems and the “abuses” seem to be publicly posting what the government is spending mone
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by imgabe 2y ago
That is the MO. Elon has stated publicly that if you don’t have to put something back, you haven’t cut enough. That is the idea. You cut things and see what was necessary.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I think it excels when you know enough to precisely describe what you want but you don’t know enough about the details of the language or framework you’re using to implement what you want.
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by imgabe 2y ago
DOGE makes recommendations to the president, who has the final decision making authority. The rest is pure speculation. “It is very reasonable to believe this thing that confirms all my biases so therefore it must be true”
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by imgabe 2y ago
There is precisely zero mention of any plan to put xAI or any other LLM in any safety critical or decision making process. How long? Nobody knows because nobody is even considering it. Take your pointless fear mongering elsewhere.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Boo hoo. We are trying to advance civilization here. To accumulate and make available all human knowledge to date. And you stand there with your hand out to stop this? You are a villain. There is no sympathy for you.
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by imgabe 2y ago
It says that anyone can RSVP, you only need an Apple account to create invitations.
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by imgabe 2y ago
When you find yourself in an -ism you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere.
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Nobody put him in charge, he started the company. Start a competitor if you think you can do a better job.
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by imgabe 2y ago
It literally is. Something costs resources. If it’s not accomplishing anything, then get rid of it.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I didn’t say he obtained it through the DEIA department. Obviously, it went through the normal procurement process. What I’m saying is if the DEIA department was supposed to be advocating for him and helping with the process they were clear
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by imgabe 2y ago
It sounds like the deia department was ineffective, but for some reason it’s bad that the ineffective department is going away. What were we paying these people for if they couldn’t do a simple thing like get screen reader software? This is
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by imgabe 2y ago
Stole them from where? An Amazon warehouse? The New York Public Library? People's homes? Is there any plan to recover the books and return them to their owners?
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by imgabe 2y ago
Possibly they could force him to divest from whatever legal entity Twitter operates under in that country, or force Twitter to stop operating in that country, but they would have no authority over the US corporation.
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by imgabe 2y ago
No, it wouldn’t. Congress could pass a law that we’re not going to import microphones and speakers from China. The Constitution explicitly gives them the power to do that. You could then purchase them from any one of a number of other compa
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by imgabe 2y ago
lmao so the past 8 years where the media was a propaganda org for the DNC was what exactly?
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by imgabe 2y ago
“Everyone who has a media platform does it to keep people fearful and misinformed”. What does this tell you about previous media platforms?
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by imgabe 2y ago
What does the US offer Europe that they don’t use themselves?
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by imgabe 2y ago
Yeah, and a lot of people opining on US elections had media platforms of their own, or were heads of state or otherwise influential. Too bad. Sucks that you got beat at your own game.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Let’s say you and I are adversaries. Or maybe just competitors. I invite you for a meal. But I won’t eat the meal myself. I only want you to eat it. Do you think that’s going to be good for you?
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by imgabe 2y ago
China also bans TikTok. That should tell you everything you need to know about whether they believe it is a positive influence.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Stop. This is stupid. People are allowed to have opinions on politics in other countries. Every other country in the world sure as hell isn’t shy about opining on US elections. Then you want to act all indignant if the US opines on your ele
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by imgabe 2y ago
The only difference is the manufacturer. But this is an important difference.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Reminds me of BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
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by imgabe 2y ago
What is the burden? You have to tap on a different icon on your phone? Oh no
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by imgabe 2y ago
You realize you’re expressing yourself without having to be on camera right now, right? That is in no way unique to TikTok.
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by imgabe 2y ago
They upheld the ban even if there were a First Amendment interest. That doesn’t mean that there is one, it means that if there were one it wouldn’t matter. They didn’t examine if the first amendment applied or not because it wouldn’t matt
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by imgabe 2y ago
There are no issues of speech. Nobody’s speech is restricted in any way. China simply isn’t allowed to sell a social media app in the US. This is just an import control like if we decided not to import lemons from Brazil or anything else. W
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Congress is explicitly empowered in the Constitution to regulate foreign trade. Free speech is not relevant.

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